A breath of fresh air and a new side project
A few years ago, I joined the discord server of a french podcast network, which (among other shows) produces Comics Outcast, a show that I’d been listening to almost religiously. In this show, each host presents in turn the first 3 issues of a comic book series and discuss it with the others. It’s fun and mostly done in good faith (mostly, you know who you are). Over the episodes, I’ve learned a lot about editors, artists and series and I eneded up spending a buttload of money in comic books. Still, I started working on a website with them.
Yet another Discord server in my sidebar
When I joined the discord server, I wasn’t expecting anything. Based on previous experiences, I have a tendency to slowly fade out from most chat servers I join 1. They either die on their own or I simply lose interest. Yet after a few years, I still check this server daily, I’ve made a lot of friends and I’m not ashamed to say that they’ve been of tremendous help when things got hard for me.
Why am I telling you this? Well, I wanted to share some context on what brought me to start a project with them. I have a lot of side projects on my own, but it’s a lot easier to keep going when you’re working with friends. Especially when they know what they want.
Introducing Comics-Outmash
The project is codenamed “Comics Outmash”, as the results of putting “comics outcast” and “facemash”2 together. The goal is simple: take the book club that currently takes place in a dedicated channel of the Discord server and turn it into a website.
It’s a fun project, it’s simple and it allowed me to experiment with a few things. I love it when people take the time to explain how they created a project, a library, or an app… While I’m not ready to share the URL yet, I figured it’s only fair for me to share about this project as well. Plus, I said that I wanted to write more this year.
In this series, I’ll talk about why I used Kotlin instead of any other of the technologies available to me. I want to go into more details than the post I created on Mastodon about using Supabase and giving up on it shortly after. And because I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t wrote about this, I absolutely want to write about the continuous integration and deployment setup I have in place, using tools like Github Actions, Dependabot and Dokku.
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